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Note that items are in random order under each month before June '05; supposed to be in reverse chronological order, but I forgot and will eventually have to fix. Meanwhile, you can just go to the whole-month link and see them in the correct order together. (Last updated: Sept 27, 2008)

September, 2008

Home Again, Home Again, Diggity DOG! Back in Californ-I-A.
My Heart Is Torn Asunder Paul Newman has died.
A Day in Old Montreal Another 8 miles, another 10 hours, and what a cool city!
Thursday in Montreal: The Search For Dogs More work, more walking, a few dogs.
Wednesday In Montréal More work and a little more wandering around.
Another Busy Day Mostly business today.
Montreal Photos Photos from my Sunday 7-mile hike are available, including more dogs.
Famous Last Words Stop me if you've heard this one before: "I don't need to charge my camera's battery ..."
Aloneness Being alone is not the same as being lonely.
In Montréal Je suis arrivé! (Arrivée? Arriver? Crud... I am here!)
Leaving My Dogs Behind--Je Vais Aller au Montréal Business and pleasure. And no agility.
Talk Like a Pirate, Ya Scurvy Dogs Just practicing for tomorrow. Long Rem Silver's ghost reminds you to be prepared.
How To Play Agility Snooker The rules of Snooker in dog agility.
How Many Trials? How many trials I've competed in, of why variety, and with which dogs.
Some USDAA Weekend Classes Maps, videos, and brief discussions from this last weekend.
The Dog In The Night Part ?? Another trip to the emergency room. Is it a bladder infection?
Achievements Lots of good stuff this weekend. But handler needs more training.
What The Weekend Could Bring Titles and successes looming.
Self Improvement (Or Is That Elf Improvement?) Got to stop talking to myself. Keep telling myself that.
Why I Am Going to Nationals Why I am going to USDAA Nationals (excuse me, Cynosports World Games) . (Is there an echo in here?) An analysis of previous tournament and nationals appearances.
No Dog In The Night (and Other Gratitudes) Boost sleeps through the night, and otherwise also a good week.
A Lifetime of Weekend Stupidity What IS it about me and getting up early on weekends? A trip through earlier decades.
Border Collie to the Rescue A video with a surprise ending.
Road Trip Report Fun match, beach, fun match. Lots of driving
Earthquake Reporting Fun dynamic data. In color! Dogs are useless!
Busy Dog Day Ahead Practice, walking, hiking, practice, and lots of driving.
Got Video? Selected videos and course maps from regionals.
Weight Just A Minute Everyone's now on a diet.
Southwest Regional Results Results are available online.
Two Legs? Works for Humans--Dogs with no front legs.
Favorite Dog Agility LyricsFrom K-TMH (K-TajMuttHall), only the finest in dog-related music and hijacked lyrics!

August, 2008

Mixed Bag But Mostly Good Tika Qs, Boost back to the drawing board.
The World's Most Expensive Polo Shirt I'm out of excuses. Guess I'm going to Nationals. Besides, I want that shirt.
OK, We'll Take It In which we get some Qs the hard way.
A Good Start Good, good, everything's good, except there's no gas in my car.
Good News and Bad News DAM Team changes; Boost changes.
Hot I repeat. Hot.
Is It Nationals or Is It Not? Maybe the Regionals will decide for me. Or maybe I'll decide whatever I want to decide.
Preparing to Compete Working on Boost's lead-out pivot, go-on, bar knocking, runouts, and refusals. Is that enough?
Number 9... Number 9... In which our agility sequence is rudely interrupted.
Shouldn't Complain Too Much Tika vs Boost as younger dogs.
Runs from this weekend Course maps, videos, and a list of our mistakes.
Sunday Results Generally had a good time. But pretty awful in the Q department. And lots of random photos.
Saturday Results Not the way I had expected the day to go, exactly--
Coming Right Up: Agility Weekends! Plus Puppies! Four USDAA trials in the next 5 weeks. What we need for more titles.
Why Dogs Should Not Be Loose in Your Vehicle Save their lives, and maybe yours, too.
We Interrupt Dog Agility and Hiking for a Sleepove... An annual birthday party in Visalia. A photo story w/out dogs.
Joy and Grief Puppies and another tragedy.
The Dog in the Night Follow-Up Boost is fine probably.
The Dog In The Night Boost and her potty habits. Or what.
Birthday Party With Relatives Boost's breeder's 40th birthday.
Getting In Shape For Fast Dog Agility If hiking gives me energy and stamina, and if that makes me faster, will it make my dogs faster and more accurate?
Clipping Boost resorts to body bashing, for everything.
My Photos In Ebook Dog-breed book available online
In Which Perfection Is Reversed Tika does contacts; Boost does weaves.
Tired of Sleeping WITH Dogs? Sleep IN one! Americana in Idaho.

July, 2008

Photos Photos Everywhere and Not a Dog In Sight Sunday trip to Monterey, and also Havasu inside out.
Favorite Dog Lyrics Part 4 From K-TMH (K-TajMuttHall), only the finest in dog-related music and hijacked lyrics!
I Hate Computers
Boost is an Auntie More fast puppies. (littermate Gina)
Time Goes On Double sad news outside my dog world.
My Credentials Ahem. May I present myself? (agility achievements, such as they are)
Hiking with Other People's Dogs A brisk hike through poison oak without my beasites.
Zero-Fault Grand Prixs USDAA rule change--You just knew it was going to happen sooner or later.
A Sunday Diary Notes about my CPE weekend by time of day. Part 2.
A Saturday Diary Notes about my CPE weekend by time of day. Part 1.
Last of the Grand Canyon Photos At last, I'm done with Day 7!
Who Are You and Why Are You Paying All That Money?... Who we (agility people) are and how much money we're paying. (Duh!)
Charity Vote From Wishy the Writer, an online vote.
Trial Statistics Because I Can I love it when trial secretaries extract interesting info from the trial database!
No Practice Makes--What? Lack of classes, lack of practice, but Tika's fine.
What It's All About Blogging, of course.
No Dogs, But Houses, Flowers, and Ships What I did today in Alameda and Oakland.
Sometimes It's Just Nothing Snooker: It's not about the points, it's about the clothing.
It Sucks or It Soars Why some classes I like better than others for some dogs (with details from Rem's standard and Tika's full house histories)
Complete List of Labels Blog labels list, created manually.
Tika Progresses Status on anal gland.
Tika Status and Chasing That Steeple Commentary on improving runs with Steeplechase video.
Boost Jumpers Disaster Commentary with video.
Where We Did What We Did USDAA weekend course maps with brief discussions.
Things Become Clearer Boost is not ready for prime time. Tika's backside is why she's been pissy and clingy. Probably
Another One of Those Team Days either dog's team qualified.
Smallish USDAA Trial This Weekend Some trial stats for your browsing entertainment.
The Sad Thing About Dogs They're not here long enough.
Bummer and Coolness Tika has a team for this weekend.
Really Really Bored Dogs and Agility Schedule Pesterful dogs and agility coming right up.
Hiking Photo Links Now all hiking photo links in one place.

June, 2008

Washcloth Lust Video of dogs and a used washcloth.
Box Work Video poking fun at "box work".
Photos from Black Mountain Hike Link to photos.
The Great Outdoors Ticks and Fires and Heat, Oh my!
What a Waste Recycling and doggie droppings.
Husky Oh, yeah, and we dog-sat this husky last night.
Leader of the Pack Hiking with the dogs among the rhus diversiloba so green-o.
No Fruit Dogs To Help In This Heat Plums are ripe; where's Jake when you need him? Mighty hot for these here parts.
Day 6 of Havasu/Grand Canyon Trip Day 6 photos are done! Just one more half a day at the Grand Canyon to go.
Various Views The view from Tika. The view from ringside. The view from class.
Let Lying Dogs Lie In which I work and they don't.
Wednesday Night Hike The usual brisk hike with the Sierra Club group.
Day 5 of Havasu/Grand Canyon Trip Photos are up.
How to Win At The Nationals In which I explain my strategy for not being at the top of the game and whining about it.
Work Those Doggie Legs Finally, hiking WITH the Taj MuttHall beasties.
Not Going To Nationals (The big decision has been made. Probably. Things Boost had trouble with in class.)
Is it A Cute Angle? Am I Obtuse? Test My Reflexes!... (Practicing 270-degree turns.)
Caffeine, Chemicals, and Coneage (Musings upon the effects of assorted chemicals on human and canine consumers; plus coneage.)
Hiking Schmiking (But what about agility? A silly post with photos)
Havasu Falls Photos Are up (Day 4 photos are uploaded and labeled. Some highlights.)
More Hiking and Pigging Out (Henry Coe's Backside, plus Casa de Fruta.)
Wednesday Night Brisk Hike (In Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve, the usual brisk hike without much time for photos.)
Agility Music and Videos (Agility goes music mainstream.)
Steeplechase and Team Courses (Several courses were interesting in their challenges this weekend. Here are some.)
Bummed About the Weekend (Results weren't what I'd hoped for. Not feeling good about agility at the moment.)

May, 2008

Things That Boost Doesn't Know ( Things I learned in class last night about rear crosses and bar knocking.)
A Little Bit of Everything(Havasu Falls, hiking Monte Bello, blackberries, nephew graduating, weekend trial plans, tired)
Some Trip Photos Available (Havasu Falls Days 1, 2, and 3 are up, with summaries of each day.)
Havasu Trip Summary (brief statistics)
Home! (Back from Arizona)
On the Road--Or Trail (Post from the road: I've been to Havasu Falls!)
Workout Hike With Pack (hiking: The canyon trip will be a challenge)
Hiking and Topo Maps (I'm almost on my way to Havasu Falls! Trip preparation)
Naming Names--Or Not (Trying to decide on a Taj MuttHall policy for mentioning people)
Hiking to the Mall (In which TMH, sans dogs, strikes out across the suburban wilderness to see a film, taking photos all the way.)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Friday night at San Jose Giants)
Entropy 1: Moisture Removal Machine (The old dryer died.)
Does Your Dog Bite? (Responding to strangers in the Real World.)
Compost Happens (An award from one of my other lives.)
Favorite Dog Lyrics Part 3 (From K-TMH (K-TajMuttHall), only the finest in dog-related music and hijacked lyrics!)
Handling a Sore Dog (How I handle my own injuries, how I deal with my dogs' injuries)
Things Is Looking Pretty Good Here (USDAA weekend results)
Catching Up (Wednesday night hike around Stanford, Tika's looking good, Boost's weaves, trial schedule insanity)

April, 2008

Soreness and Weaves and Miscellany (Tika gets better, Boost practices weaves, Buster Cubes, flowers
Fiction Break (A friend's Hugo-nominated story)
Poor Tika, Dumb Mom (Tika very sore)
Photos in Clean Run (My photos of Rachel's seminar)
Tika is Qualified in Grand Prix (A surprise ribbon discovery)
It All Turns Out OK (USDAA weekend results pretty good, Tika sore)
When You Wish Upon A Star (Tika earned everything I asked for, and not much else; Boost's weaves; silly dog names)
One Dog, Two Dog, No Dog, Three Dog (what's the right number of dogs?)
Wednesday Night Workout Hike (brief description with photos)
Proofing Weaves Update (Proofing weaves in class)
Proofing Weaves (Strategies for having strong weave stickiness)
Wildflower Identification--And Not (Link to my wildflower hike photos)
Whine. Pause. Whine. Pause. Whine. (Boost's bored strategy)
The Yard Has Gone To The Dogs (Link to my photo essay about my back yard)
Phun With Photography (Action photos of dogs in yard)
Hiking Without the Dogs (Photos of hike with other people's dogs)
Dang Steeplechase (Data on how Tika fails to Q)
Boring Notes To Self From Weekend (Mostly uninteresting commentary about our successes and challenges)
Weekend Courses (USDAA team snooker, team gamble, steeplechase, and grand prix courses from the weekend)
Haute TRACS Is Almost Done (summary of three days and some random photos)
Haute TRACS Is Almost Here (finished the scribe sheets; not working on agility skills; yard)
Contact Consult and Commuting (trip to Rachel's for contact work and touristing along the way)
Big Show Statistics (comparing some numbers from local big and small trials)
How Credit Card Companies Mess With You (nothing to do with dogs--just griping)

March, 2008

On The Road to Power Paws (What you'll see)
Truckee Weekend (hiking in the Sierras, dogs in the snow, staying at the cabin)
AKC Nationals Ongoing (some results from some people I know)
I've Got the Weave Pole Blue(Merle)s/Mountains (Boost's weaves, and off for a hiking weekend)
How Danged Refusals Killed Our Snooker Run (Boost's refusals while looking at me)
It's All About the Titles (2007) (2007 agility titles earned by my dogs)
CPE Weekend Wrap-Up (Detailed notes about all 20 runs)
CPE Weekend Photos (Fun photos)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Boost needs to go potty during the night)
Busy CPE Day 1 (Narrative discussion of the day's results)
My Email Going Astray (Email is disappearing)
Nondog People (What other people think about training, behavior, and so on)
From My Writing Life (Classmates are successful)
Phone, Conditioning, This Weekend, Teams (Phone is out, getting ready for the Grand Canyon, CPE coming up, still trying to figure out DAM teams)
LoveYerDog AKA Bath Day ("Saturday" means bath day; we all get wet but clean)
There Is Nothing Like A Frame (Fun lyrics)
More Photos Than You Can Shake A Rope Toy At (Taj MuttHall photo album link)
Wendy Does Tie Dye (Photos of tie dye done by my favorite, Wendy, and her contact info)
Tie Dye Rules the Nose (Expounding upon white things and enjoying tie-dyed hankies)
Doggie Junk Food (What treats I feed my dogs and why)
CPE Weekend Results (The usual whining about bars, contacts, weaves, but also a lot of firsts)
Updates and Bits (CPE coming up, what Qs we need, car dent, knee OK, practicing gamblers, RIP Kevin Gast)
Spring and Easter (plum tree, Easter facts)
My Dogs' Names In Wikipedia (fun with the Internet)

February, 2008

Google Maps (Which is my back yard?)
Knee Bounces Back and So Does the Other Car (Knee improves; car gets a bump)
Iroknee (Owwwww! Poor knee!)
Rachel's Running A-Frame Part 2 (Finally!)
Walking Into A Big Hole In The Ground (Preparing for Havasu Falls; walking with Tika; photography bug; bucket list)
Alternative Construction Materials (link to agility in the snow)
Are Border Collies Really All That Smart? (link to funny video)
Border Collie Intelligence and Fame (BCs in National Geographic)
Foggy Agility Practice (photos mostly of fog and livestock)
Hiking With the Dogs (short walk with photos)
DAM(n) Teams (yet another permutation)
Another Fun URL (link to funny video: Dreams of Future Agility Champion)
Assorted Fun URLs (random doggie stuff, only some sort of agility related)
Closer Foxie (nature photos)
Friend at Westminster (French Bulldog Elliott at Westminster; fat Border Collies)
More Family Resemblances (Photos of Boost, Tala, Rowdy)
Chains (continued) (Teaching Boost and Tika tricks)
Chains (Tire chain, key chain, food chain(foxes), DNA chain (Tala and Boost), chain of thought (Cirque du Soleil and silver lame), hair chainge (Mr. Chia Head))
A Busy Weekend (Henry Coe Hike, Cirque du Soleil, Elephant Bar, SMART practice and meeting, family birthday)
The End of A Wednesday Night Era (Ellen and Tika drop out of class)
Nose Touches (external extreme nose-touch video)
Team, Team, Who's Got the Team? (Trying to keep track of 3-dog teams for both dogs for 4 trials)
Weekend Photos (Photos at sunset along Hwy 132, Mr. Chia Head)
Weekend Videos (USDAA weekend videos for Masters Standard and Gamblers, both dogs)
Birthday Girls (photo and text about Boost and siblings)
The Vet Bill (for Tika's tooth and other x-rays)
Home From A Cold USDAA Weekend (It was cold and rainy, Tika and Boost results summary)